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All-Star Pitcher Schilling’s Video Game Studio Can’t Pay Its Employees, Either
It is looking dire for 38 Studios, the Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning studio set up with a huge hunk of public funding from a Rhode Island jobs creation program. So now, we’re talking about an operation that took taxpayer money with the intent of creating jobs and can’t pay the employees working in them. That’s…
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UncategorizedWounded Galatian: Max Payne 3‘s Soccer Mission, and the Meaning Behind its Fictitious Team
This only marginally qualifies as a spoiler alert because, if you’ve played Max Payne 3 longer than 20 minutes, you’ve encountered this mission already. It revolves around a shootout in the locker room of the Galatians FC in Sao Paulo, Brazil which, as a quick Internet search plus common sense reveals, ain’t a real team.…
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The Game Club is doing a Diablo III Character Study Right Now!
Hey Game Clubbers, welcome to our first discussion of Diablo III. I hope that none of you guys had as hard a time as I did logging onto the game for the first time. If you did then, like me, you probably haven’t spent as much time with the game as you’d like. Even those…
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Want to Be in the Far Cry 3 Multiplayer Beta? Read This
For two weeks this summer, Ubisoft will invite select PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 gamers to a virtual tropical island to choose one of six character classes to shoot each other with in the Far Cry 3 multiplayer beta test. How to be involved? Let me count the ways. 1. Buy Ghost Recon: Future Soldier…
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UncategorizedN.O.V.A. 3 Is The Most Ambitious Mobile First-Person Shooter I’ve Seen
First-person shooters suck on a mobile device, don’t they? They’re inaccurate, fidgety, uncomfortable…and just downright rage-worthy. Why would you even want to play Call of Duty on your iPhone anyway, right? Though N.O.V.A. 3 doesn’t escape the flaws of mobile first-person shooting entirely, it does a damn good job of making you forget about them.…
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UncategorizedThis Holographic Star Wars LEGO Toy Display is Better Than All Three Prequels Combined
A pair of LEGO Star Wars sets become the state for a holographic interstellar war in what could be the most amazing store window advertising I’ve ever seen. I could watch this for hours, which is more than I can say for a good half of the actual Star Wars films. YouTube user H1tmonchan caught…
By Mike Fahey
